News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Mark Betancourt, age 35, Joseph Sansosti, age 26, and Juan Betancourt, age 26, all of Greenville, South Carolina, were sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Iduar Acosta Fernandez, age 29, of Carrollton, Texas, was sentenced to 4 years’ probation and 8 months home detention for Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. The charges arose from an investigation by the Lighthorse Police Department and the United States Secret Service.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyoming, has prepared the March snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Esteban Guillen Ramirez, 53, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, was sentenced on April 7, 2019, to one year in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for his role in a complex black market peso exchange money laundering scheme. The scheme was uncovered in 2015 following a lengthy investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration into a Portland-based heroin trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL RICHO, 37, of New Haven and formerly of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - In observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island will join the Rhode Island Attorney General and Family Service of Rhode Island led observance at the annual Victims’ Grove Ceremony.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will be making recreation facility improvements in April to the East Tumey Day Use Area, San Benito County, to improve public access, provide safer parking options and help reduce impacts to private property. A seasonal road closures will also go into effect in the Panoche and Tumey Hills on April 15.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) has transferred nearly 200 boxes of artifacts and records of importance to tribes in the northwest U.S. to the Wanapum Heritage Center for long-term curation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Barbara Serna Salinas, a 43-year-old former loan officer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Uvalde, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a farm loan fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney John Bash.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from IBC Bank Robbery in Oklahoma City.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr., 29 years old, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, who was convicted by a federal jury of possessing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute in October 2018, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Univar USA Inc. (Univar), a subsidiary of Univar Inc., of Downers Grove, Illinois, has agreed to pay the United States $62.5 million to settle allegations under the customs penalty statute that it was grossly negligent or negligent when it imported 36 shipments of transshipped saccharin...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Iselin, New Jersey, man today admitted that he attempted to fraudulently obtain United States citizenship, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury in March indicted a Birmingham college student for Advertisement, Sale, and Possession of Child Pornography announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Hundreds of Thousands of Elderly and/or Disabled Patients Nationwide and Abroad Lured into Criminal Scheme to Bilk Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Barbara Serna Salinas, a 43-year-old former loan officer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Uvalde, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a farm loan fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney John Bash.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking good homes for wild horses and burros during its adoption and sale event planned for April 19-21, at the Yavapai Humane Society Equine Center, 3731 N Road 1 W, Chino Valley, Ariz. The event will run from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Taxpayer First Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the House Committee on Ways & Means unanimously passed the bipartisan Prescription Drug STAR Act. H.R. 2113 addresses key issues related to transparency and public reporting of information in order to improve accountability and ensure consumers, purchasers, payers, and taxpayers have a better understanding of this opaque market.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Apr. 9, 2019)-Five House Committee Chairs sent letters to the Department of Justice (DOJ) , the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , and the White House requesting documents and information regarding the involvement of White House officials in the Administration’s troubling decision to not defend the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
